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Number the Stars is a work of historical fiction by the American author Lois Lowry about the escape of a family of Jews from Copenhagen, Denmark, during World War II.. The story revolves around ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen, who lives with her mother, father, and sister Kirsti in Copenhagen in 1943.
Lowry won the Newbery Medal in 1990 for her novel Number the Stars, and again in 1994 for The Giver. [12] For Number the Stars, Lowry has also received the National Jewish Book Award in 1990, in the Children's Literature category, [21] and the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award in 1991. [22] In 1994, Lowry was awarded the Regina ...
In the afterword to her work of historical fiction, Number the Stars, Lois Lowry likened the character Peter Neilsen, a resistance member, to Kim, possibly for his courage against the Nazis. She also wrote of Kim "seeing the quiet determination in his boyish eyes made me determined, too, to tell his story, and that of all the Danish people who ...
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On "Pawn Stars," owner Rick Harrison was offered one of the most expensive books that'd ever been in the shop: The Book of Mormon. The appraiser said, "Rick, this by far the most valuable book you ...
Number the stars is partly focused in the friendship of two 10-year old girls but it's really about the struggle of the Danes in rescuing the jews from being 'relocated'(killed) by the Nazis. it's also good for adults.
Remember the North Stars' last real hurrah in Minnesota, the unlikely 1991 run to the Stanley Cup final? Former St. Cloud Times writer Kevin Allenspach just released a book on the near-miracle season.
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